I am often accused of buying stuff for my projects rather than using what I've got.

I do try to use what I have, but sometimes the things you need aren't the things you have.

In this case, there was a bit of both.  I had some things I could use, and had to buy some other things.

These are the things I collected to build the "Exer-desk":

There's a piece of kitchen counter top there supporting the other bits and pieces.

There's several "not 2x4s" that I had in the garage - left overs from previous projects.  They are "not 2x4s" because I'm in Germany.  Those pieces of lumber are a bit thicker and wider than the 2x4s I grew up with as an American kid.  They are some metric size - I neither know nor care what size.  I use 'em like 2x4s, and they do the job.  I made the desk legs from them.

There's two packages of screws there.  150 screws, to be exact.  I used danged near all of them.  That's one of those "you have to have the right part" things.  They have to have the right diameter to hold well in the pressed wood chip counter top, and they need to be long enough but not so long as to come out the top of the counter top when you put them in from the bottom.  I have loads of screws in the garage - and none them the correct size or length.

There's a stack of 16 angle brackets.  I used them to attach the legs to the counter top.  I had a few brackets, but no where near enough for this job so I bought a whole bunch of identical ones.

There are four rubber feet in there as well.  There's a (rather long) story to how those fit in that I'll explain in another log.

I bought a switched outlet strip to install under the desk.  I like to turn things OFF when I'm not using them.  That outlet strip is one of the rare ones that has the cord and the switch at different ends.  The cord goes out the back way, and the switch is up front under the desktop where I can easily reach it.

There's a roll of iron-on edging for the counter top to cover the rough edges where it was cut.  It looks like a roll of duct-tape.  I haven't put it on the desk yet.  I suppose I really ought to - it cost near as much as the counter top itself did.

I only bought what I had to, but this time around that turned out to be everything but the legs.